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We Are Spoken

In the debate about
the intentions of a maker
or the accidents and consequences
that clearly add up to
species in the records,
both sides measure the magic
in terms of individualization,
and seem to assume
that begins in biology.

This is strange,
because the articulation, intricacy,
and greater purposes we see in the
life around us can also happen
in the most basic stuff around us.

If I can see the veins in a river delta
or in paint I've presssed and pulled
just so, aren't my veins and fingers
speaking like the mud and the pigment
in response to stresses and concentrations?

There is more magic built into
the stuff of our universe than we notice.
There are meanings that echo up and down
the scales of a creation that never stops,
that never stops speaking
its name in its nature.

forms spoken by water leaving

" ...many phenomena, in geology, meteorology, biology and even economics and sociology, emerge spontaneously from the interplay of intensity differences. Indeed, one can build an entire theory of the genesis of form (of geological, biological or cultural forms) on the basis of processes of becoming driven by intensity differences. Unlike essentialism, where matter is viewed as an inert receptacle for forms that come from the outside (transcendental essences), here matter is seen as possessing its own immanent, intensive resources for the generation of form from within. " ---Manuel Delanda

Cloud Control

Can you feel...

Dom Spiro Spero

Ancient Heart

I was looking at
a strange news item, on
the theft of the "ancient heart"
of a saint from a cathedral,
and it brought my thoughts
back to Tanita Tikaram.

One of my homies...

Heart's ladder, Sonnet #9,
Mark Schorr, Andover, Mass.
(director of the Frost Foundation)
I'd like to think I had a hand in
encouraging this character...hah.

He's working on timing.
Awesome job so far.
hahaaaaa.... yes.

Well, alright, Mark!
Kids, let that be a lesson:
keep messing with the gadget!
Think about the mark you make.

The Winterpills

Kind of a slowcore sound,
and some tunes have semi-sense lyrics.
They put out a wide catalog.
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But in other notations....
After some strange times
and side-roads I'm mustering out to
work out on the pen again
and getting out on rounds.
Then St. Francis of a SASE,
but later on.
As ye few blogonauts know,
there are these Major Tom
moments. I'll be around
after a rest..